Posted on 02/10/2006 5:29:54 AM PST by blitzgig
An odd thing happened in Washington this week. The Senate Judiciary Committee questioned Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on whether the president has the authority to intercept international phone calls without first seeking a warrant. Very few people believe that the president has that authority -- which is different than asking whether he should have that authority -- but Gonzales, who is almost entirely a creation of George W. Bush, insisted the president does. He presented, by way of proving his point, this overwhelming piece of evidence: Bush has done it.
The argument in favor of the National Security Agency intercepts is consistent with those that took us to war in Iraq. They are all a collection, an assemblage, a concatenation of fibs, exaggerations, misinterpretations, selected evidence, hype, false leads, vile suggestions, felonious deletions and the like, which marched us to Baghdad where we remain to this day. Gonzales, an apparatchik, lacks the courage of his mendacity. If he were to tell the truth ... never mind, it won't happen.
The belief that George Bush has virtually whatever power he wants to wage this war against terrorism is not, as some deluded souls think, the consequence of some legal theory or some grand constitutional nonsense or even the close and nerdy reading of the congressional resolution enabling the president to visit war upon Iraq. It is a consequence, instead, of Bush's conviction that he is doing God's work. You wanna argue with that, buddy?
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Wow! I'm in select company.
Evidence? Evidence? We don't need no steenkin' evidence!
FMCDH(BITS)
Ah, well, that's because Mr. Cohen prefers to posit his own opinion as fact. It's a characteristic of the far left - or so it seems.
That's true. Instead of an analysis of the NSA program and its legal basis, all that Cohen offers is a fatuous psychological profile of how Bush supposedly thinks (all based, of course, on Cohen's own personal speculations).
Sure I'll argue and don't call me Buddy.
Everyone has a right to believe they are doing God's work and if Mr. Cohen doesn't think that he himself is doing God's work, then whose work is he doing?
I wonder if Cohen is aware that the president prior to Bush did what Bush is "alledgedly" doing.
Conjecture Embraced as Fact.
That statement alone embraces everything the Democrats stand for. They deny the facts and support their opposition to everything with conjecture.
First of all, that is pure conjecture. It should be modified to say "Very few people I know believe that the president has that authority."
And second, among those who believe he does are people whose opinions actually matter in this instance - namely, judges on federal courts who have issued rulings on such.
"In order to take a nation to war, you have to believe mightily in the threat you are facing..."
Tell me again about the terrible threat we were (and are) facing from the Serbs. None, you say? I somehow don't remember your lamentations over that war. And, by the way, you twerp, look in on one of the many blogs which recite the many quotes from Slick and his cohorts about the certainty of WMD in Iraq.
What kind of condescending remark is this about a man from a very humble background and a life of educational and professional achievement?
Inwoodian wrote:
> And, by the way, you twerp, look in on one of the many
> blogs which recite the many quotes from Slick and his
> cohorts about the certainty of WMD in Iraq.
Right! And here's a good list or such quotes:
http://www.mooregop.org/WMDs_the_rest_of_the_story.html
-Dave
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